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Saturday Night Rules

Saturday night is date night. Not just for hubby and I, but for a large percentage of the world. Date night is a habit we got into long ago, when our lives were hectic and the kids were small. It was often just mom-isn’t-going-to-cook night, if we couldn’t get a sitter. We would put the [...]

Food Wars, Part 5,349

I have expounded, in the past, about the utility of a scorecard when dealing with a child’s food choices. I have since decided that the scorecard is irrelevant. Scorecards only work when the rules stay the same from one game to the next; if the rules of the game change, calculating the stats is virtually [...]

The Things You Learn When You Slice Your Finger (Almost) Off

I’m the first to admit that my knife skills aren’t up there with a master chef, but I do at least manage to get dinner on the table, most of the time, without any added protein from my finger. But not Thursday night. I was almost done making butternut squash soup, to be served with [...]

You Say Tomato…

Being a biologist has its strong points in the motherhood arena. For instance, teaching your kids about sex is sort of natural. You start with yeast and work your way up, and the kids never have that slap-themselves-on-the-forehead, we’re-not-in-Kansas anymore moment. And my kids benefit from the microbiology degree, because I don’t stress about raw [...]

What Not to Say to a Kid About Food

Last week Psychology Today blogs featured a guest post by Dr. Deanna Minich, a nutitionist, entitled Seven Things You Should Never Say to Your Child About Food. It was pretty funny. Go read it.

Whitepaste Cuisine

But this post ISN’T about pica.

It’s about the glue that holds a family together–

The dinner table.

Someone Get Me a Scorecard!

You can please some of the people some of the time, except at the dinner table.

On child won’t eat cured pork products. One won’t eat chicken, unless it’s fried. One doesn’t like the texture of fish. One likes carrots, but not peas. One likes peas, but not broccoli. One will eat broccoli, but only the very tip-tops of the florets.

And just when you think you have it all figured out, it all CHANGES. Now THIS one is allergic to chicken, and THAT one won’t eat broccoli.